These are definitely different from your average truffle. First off, MiniMelanie truffles are shaped like jewels and are hand painted with edible, shiny dust. They're also using Belgian chocolates (milk, white, and dark chocolates) and other local ingredients from New York. Lastly, the insides of these truffles are a dense cake mixture!

They just launched a new flavor for the summer time: Smores, which is perfect for the summer time and reminiscent of the good ol' days sitting around a camp fire with friends and family roasting marshmallows. These jeweled truffles are filled with homemade vanilla marshmallows, whole wheat graham crackers (see they're healthy, right?!), and surrounded with milk chocolate:

Mini Melanie also has many other fun flavors like funfetti (white chocolate filled with funfetti cake!). The white chocolate were by far the most colorful and jewel-like. I'm a serious dark chocolate lover myself, so those were no question my favorite! They had rich dark chocolate filling.

These didn't last long in my apartment or among my friends when I was nice enough to share!

Where can you get these? In addition to ordering them online, you can also visit Hill & Dale (a very cool bar in the Lower East Side of Manhattan) and order them right off the menu. A box of 12 of these pretty little thangs will run you $32, which is about the same as more streamlined brands like Godiva charge.

If you're thinking to yourself, "what am I going to do with 12 truffles?", fear not you can store them in the fridge for up to a week and the freezer for up to a month! I advise letting them come to room temperature after a few minutes in the fridge and a little longer after the freezer before enjoying.

They also have amazing looking cakes...I'll definitely be ordering one for my next birthday!